Architect: Calvin Straub
Footprint: 1,744 sq. toes (3 bedrooms, 2 baths)
Lot Dimension: 6,487 sq. toes
From the Agent: “The house was designed because the influential USC professor Calvin Straub was merging his observe with former college students Conrad Buff and Donald Hensman to determine the modern Pasadena architectural agency of Buff, Straub, & Hensman. It’s described by the Nationwide Registry of Historic Locations as ‘one of many agency’s definitive achievements in residential post-and-beam structure…a composition of modules woven with strains (framing) and planes (partitions).’ Authentic finishes are terribly intact, together with wooden and stainless-steel countertop surfaces, classic home equipment, and translucent stained cabinetry. A low island and glass sliding door face a big wood deck that extends out beneath a cover of mature bushes. The out of doors areas are as thought of because the interiors, with a grid of brick patios, combination paving, and plantings giving solution to the extra untamed panorama past. Cork flooring and unique built-in furnishings carry via to the 2 first-floor bedrooms, with their built-in desks, cabinetry, and bunk beds. Dubbed ‘the daddy of California put up and beam structure’ by writer and critic Esther McCoy, Straub discovered inspiration in each the humanities and crafts motion in addition to from California’s early modernists.”
